As the race for the recently vacated Huzurabad seat heats up with every passing day, the parties vying for it have been lashing out at their rivals.
The BJP, too, has repeatedly asserted that it will defeat the TRS by clinching the seat. Today, party leader and Nizamabad MP Dharmapuri Arvind exuded confidence about the BJP's prospects in the upcoming by-election. He predicted that the TRS government would "collapse" after the Huzurabad election like a "house of cards".
Speaking to the media at Jammikunta, Arvind claimed that Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao was scared of facing a massive defeat in the election, and dared the latter to field his son, IT and Industries Minister K T Rama Rao, from the constituency if this was not the case.
The MP also alleged that in their desperate bid to win the seat, the ruling party's leaders, including KCR, were spending Rs 300 crore on the by-election.
Talking about the recent lock-up death of a Dalit woman, he then said that no other leader had "insulted" the Dalits of the state like KCR had, and asked KCR why he was selling factories in the state but also opposing the privatisation of Andhra Pradesh's famous Vizag Steel Plant.
Some days ago, state party head Bandi Sanjay Kumar too had asserted that the TRS would
not even recover its deposit in the Huzurabad by-election.
He had claimed, "After Rajender's resignation from the post of Huzurabad MLA, there will now have to be a by-election in the constituency soon. Unfortunately for the TRS, it does not have any candidates who can help it retain the seat. I am confident that we will be able to hoist the saffron flag in Huzurabad after the by-election."